Milta Ortiz
Milta Ortiz is a Salvadoran-American playwright, who moonlights as poet, performer, and writer. Originally from the Bay Area, she now calls Tucson home. She is excited to work with Quetzal Guerrero and Borderlands Theater on Anita, a musical in the universe of Annie but completely different and with the Tucson sound. Anita was incubated at Arizona State University, where she is a Projecting All Voices Mellon...
Milta Ortiz is a Salvadoran-American playwright, who moonlights as poet, performer, and writer. Originally from the Bay Area, she now calls Tucson home. She is excited to work with Quetzal Guerrero and Borderlands Theater on Anita, a musical in the universe of Annie but completely different and with the Tucson sound. Anita was incubated at Arizona State University, where she is a Projecting All Voices Mellon fellow. Her most recent plays are Pilar and Paloma, and Cycles, a commission from StoryWorks Theater and the Arizona Daily Star, which virtually premiere in August 2020. Her play Judge Torres, commissioned by Milagro Theatre Group toured nationally to colleges and universities in the 2019/2020 season. She received NEA Artworks and NALAC Artist grants to develop and produce her play, Sanctuary, which premiered at Borderlands Theater in September 2018. She devised, wrote and directed Solving for X for the Working Classroom, which premiered in 2017. Her play, Más was produced at San Diego State University (2018), Su Teatro (March 2017), and co-produced by Laney College (March, 2016), and Ubuntu Theater Project (May 2016). Más premiered at Borderlands Theater in September 2015 thanks in part to an NEA Artworks grant and was nominated for a Steinberg-ATCA Award. Borderlands’ production toured to Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University in 2016 and 2017. Más was developed at Borderlands Theater through a National New Play Network residency and a NALAC individual artist grant in 2013/2014. Más was selected to the Latino Theater Commons Carnaval play festival, and made the Kilroys List in 2015. Other produced plays include A Tucson Pastorela (18th-21st annual productions), Sonoran Shadows, Disengaged, Fleeing Blue, and solo play Scatter My Red Underwear. Milta is associate artistic director at Borderlands Theater. She is proud to serve on the NNPN Board since 2019. She took part in the strategic planning committee that developed the board restructure and served on the previous board from 2015-2017. She earned an MFA from Northwestern University and a BA from San Francisco State University. She is mom to a creative second grader.